Show GREAT IREAT POTASH DEPOSIT UNDERliES MARSH S SS S AT SAlDURO S P Potash In surprisingly large proportions proportions r. r Is present in the brines brinO md and of ot the Salduro Marsh a sink in the Salt SnIt Lake Lake desert about sixty miles west of ot the southwest edge of Great Salt lake From the clays underlying the salt body which covers the marsh the United States geological survey has collected samples at depths of eight to twelve feet in which the dissolved salts were found to I contain from 2 to about 3 per percent per cent of potash and 2 per cent was found In the soluble salts at a depth of about four feet Of the dissolved salts contained in the I brines occupying the spaces the salt crystals in the crust overlying these 3 to 4 per cent was found t to tp be bo potash S Singularly in enough t the salt t crust left at atthe atthe th the surface t of tO the desert s f through i the evaporation of the brines contains little littlemore littlemore littlemore more than a trace of 01 potash most of ot the potash being confined to the brines and to the underlying the tho salt crust The successful e extraction of this potash S is isa a a fascinating as all well as most pressing problem for the chemical engineer According According According Ac Ac- cording to analyses made by the survey survey- the brines and from the Salduro Marsh contain considerable chloride as well as chlorides of ot p and sodium and so are somewhat similar in to the deposits from which potash Is manufactured In Ger Ger- many Therefore It appears that success sue suc Yin h fg tu cess in methods for manufacturing potash potash pot pot- ash at the Salduro Marsh should prove comparatively easy While While- no extensive exploratory work has been done by the survey to show the area of the deposit ItI it itis itis is believed I that the amount of potash t th e a present e in the region n. n if It can g be ex extracted ec- ec I with commercial success Is sufficient sufficient suf suf- sufficient to provide a valuable source of supply to the country |